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Firstly I'd say, convert our VM to bare metal. Should be easy using the qemu-img tool included on most Knoppix and other live CDs.

Once you've converted the VM disk image onto a physical drive you'll need to boot it using qemu/kvm(also part of the Live CD/DVD/BluRay you booted). This works out of the box, even using the VMWare disk images.

Since it's unlikely your system will be using the same IDE controller used by most VM products. Once you boot the physical disk as a VM all you will need to do is rebuild the initrd with any SCSI or RAID drivers your system needs. The command to do this will look something like this. After this completes run the halt command on the VM and then reboot the bare metal up onto the physical disk you just configured.

Obviously the above command would only add kvm's VirtualIO drivers for paravirtualized disk IO. I'd like to know what other flags are needed, I plan to provide one big command the would build an initrd bloated enough to boot at least %80 of all the systems ppl will be running xi on. If you discover a command that works on your Dell SAS/SATA/RAID/ect system, email them to me and I'll make sure it get's included.

mmestnik@nagios.com

Secondly you can duplicate our efforts and install on top of CentOS 5.4. Should be as much work as watching chickens lay eggs.